F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!
Benjamin LaHaise
bcrl at kvack.org
Fri Jan 23 01:17:55 UTC 2009
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:50:16AM +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Prove yourself wrong yourself -- what happens when you do
> Ctrl+Alt+F2 in X?
I've known about this trick for more than a decade, and when I try to switch
to any text console on my F10 installs, nothing occurs -- the system remains
in X. The combination of that with no more root logins (which I'm vehemently
opposed to as I think this nannying of experienced users is against the whole
Linux experience) and changes to the grub config that make the window to
catch the boot loader much narrower, my overall impression of Fedora 10 as a
long time Linux user is very negative. Firefox keeps losing my bookmarks
(yes, there's a bug filed for that with mozilla), arrow keys don't work
correctly in qemu or vmware, metacity crashes on startup 1 in 5 logins,
suspend doesn't work despite the next generation suspend code being used
in other distributions that do work, and all my systems have had their nfs
mounts denied due to another overzealous "security improvement"...
Sure, some of these are simple bugs, but the one that drives me nuts is the
system denying me the ability to fix it. The security concerns are
unreasonable given that Fedora 9 popped up a dialog warning a user when
logging in as root. This is a step backwards in usability, not an improvement.
-ben
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